We've scoured Toronto to find the perfect onion ring to rule them all. East versus West
This is the lord of the onion rings
Forget fries onion rings of the perfect side
Whether it's with a burger
Fish or sandwich in this video we go to six different locations in Toronto to try to find the best onion rings
Find out which one is the winner
Welcome to 6 and the six onion ring edition. I'm here right now. I Trinity Bellwoods
This is a special episode because we got a guest coming in from what we did. We're gonna eat compare
He's gonna show me history that you decided. We're gonna combine it and that's how we get 6 and the 6 ok
Yeah, let's go for which one you want to start with?
Hmm. Well, I guess I would like to start with one of yours. Ok. We're starting with Johnny's
Yeah, so go for it grab one. I'll grab one Jamis Johnny's I got a small one. You got the Magnum size
Yeah, Johnny's hamburgers. One of the oldest hamburger shops in Toronto established in 1967
It's become a staple of the East End Johnny's will always hook you up. All right. Cheers, man. That's Joyce
There's a classic yeah, it's a classic ghanians a little bit savory and sweet I'm assuming for its price plants
it is actually the least expensive out of all of these see the thing with
Johnny's is that it's designed at the end of a night of drinking. Hmm
So these I find are good for an end of a night of drinking
So like you after you take the uber from the West End that's like having fun and you get an East End she brings
Although after you've had such a bad time and probably puke in the West End
Maybe the rain fill and replenish yourself with these them
You know, I think the grease would do a good job of soaking up the alcohol
These are from Frankie's diner. I got to since I've never seen
Poutine onion rings before yeah, so you can give both of them a try and York
I know what you think. I would open this up. This is a nice sweet
Sauce, I think they said you told a Frankie's diner is your traditional greasy spoon with homemade burgers and fries and onion rings that
Will simply blow your mind see why people claim that this is one of the greatest diners in Toronto
You got the Magnum sized again. I said, okay. I don't go easy on mine. Okay
I'll show you up exactly get go. I'm just trying to compensate. All right, what's your news?
The last buddy won't have any of that sauce
The sauce makes that one, I mean the UH nearing isn't so far so different from Johnny's button that sauce is a killer sauce
Ooh this character to that sauce. Mmm pet Scott's out
Like it's really smoky taking players really smoking barbecue opening flavor, sweeter
I was expecting a little bit of heat at the end, but I'm cool that it doesn't have it. It's chewy
It's not as crispy as Johnny's know but they used thicker onion stir. Yep. You can decide we did you see the thickness and yeah
That's a bold move more place you got to do that once I saw in the menu I had to get it
Yeah, but like yeah, it's only $2.00 more and you get like all that cheese
Yeah, and all that gravy in there and just adds extra
This is the difference between probably one person getting it on their own and two people having to share
Yeah, we're going back to the east. Okay, and let's go. Let's go. I don't want to go luxury yet
We'll save luxury for the air those look like tires. But get this these are from what burgers like a look at NASA
They almost look like like calamari the burger shack has been making homemade burgers for almost 30 years
They have many options on their menu. Try out. This instant classic
Now these things took a nice vacation to Cuba came back to the tan compared to these
But a load of themselves wintertime rings, these are summertime
Awesome, that's some that coconut oil. Yeah. Yeah. Well, you can actually hear like a huge loud crack. That's it
Two rocks at each other rocks
Yep, okay. Yeah you get that crunch. All right. God this is they're more like funnel cake
Yeah, I was like they almost have like a dumpling. Yeah. Yeah a little sweeter. I think this one caught you off-guard egg
Yeah, I didn't expect it to taste like this at all. But it's yeah this one again. This is nostalgic to me, too
Yeah, I actually I think I right now this beats out Johnny's. Yeah, yeah
I think it's the sweetness in the dough that they're using. Mm-hmm. It gives a nice kick to it
Like I don't need any anything to dip it into I don't need cash offer. Yeah. Yeah. So yeah Frank's doing it panco outside
Mmm, I'll go sauce first. Okay, that's the Frank sauce. I'm gonna go sauce fish too. I can barely get it in there
fancy Frank's gourmet hot dogs
While their specialty is hot dogs in which they have an abundance of they also make great sides the sky's the limit
Whatever you order here. It'll be sure to make your stomach content
Okay
Their sauce tastes more like the traditional McDonald's barbecue sauce a lot sweeter then
It's less smoky. It's more like sweet and tart
As opposed to smoky flavor, but it's spicy
Chili flakes inside there nice. It's the texture though. What made those are the texture?
So I these other ones cuz the thing isn't that panko
It sticks around even though it's throw a little bit what happens, you know, these aren't all fully super fresher than one. Yeah
That one maintained its completes integrity a lot more consistent
When it comes like it wasn't greasy like the no Billy all the ones we've had so far. That was great
Yeah, all of them are great. You know that had the less that least amount of grease to it
Yeah, great deal of my fingers right now. Yeah, okay
For the big boy, you're going for the big tires. I'm gonna get the bigger one than yeah. Oh my god
Your mission ships classic old style fish and chips and great pints to go along with your order
You'll feel like you're right back in England when you're stepping in this old-school shop dude. This is insane
Yeah, I feel like Ironman right now
I feel like an Avengers I think onion man
It's like the most savory I don't mom there's not a lot of sweetness to the onions as well
It's a texture the batter though too, cuz it's it's like having a fish and chips within an onion
Like yeah, I can taste like that fish batter
No, do you taste the onion but it's mostly the batter that I taste is secondary to the flavor
Yeah, like if you took the onion out, I'd probably still be happy
the last one is also a fish and chip shop called cookies cookies fish and chips across the street from Trinity Bellwoods Park near
Battered and breaded seafood served with chips and fried all ready to order deep fried greasy. Just the way you like it
Yes, so they went with the authenticity of an actual fish and chip shop with the newspaper like display a good thing
They didn't use actual ink because that you'd probably dive to poisoning
We just we just did back-to-back fix fish and chips places Oh back to back. That's the way we do that East versus West, okay
Oh, yeah, alright
Does that weigh more pretty good. No, was that way more to it than I thought a woman guy
Oh the crunchiest involved in my father. Yeah, and even the texture as I said a little bit more panko oriented
Well, it's almost like the traditional PC or James
Chicken nuggets. Yeah. Yeah, but not the flavor just a texture
Yeah, but in the flavor has a kind of a cool journey of just light in a slightly sweet and salty
Okay, get we're down to the last two so
The the last two true rings. I want a reminder of I'm gonna go with you
So good this may have way more difficult I
was running this way to towards uh
Maybe to dip and do it would be off off the hook. Oh they got gravy there. Oh man, I
Just love how sweet your dough is. So timeless classic
It's the only one that when you bite into it, it doesn't have like the crispness of the batter all the way through it
Just go straight into like this. Nice bread
I don't know man
This is so crunchy really I know there's there's things that are good about those old hoodies
But these two of the leaders
Yeah, like I'd say these two are the most prominent so because there's something about this that I really like
It's the saltiness assault just a nice bit of salt. Yeah, I don't know. You know what?
I'm going Burger Chef. He's going Shaq
Who's wins this round
Well, it looks like in this East versus West showdown burger shack ended up victorious if you want to watch the Laird's content
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